Making a large moving wall

I want to create an effect of walls closing in from the sides of a corridor. I could use something based on sol666's block model but as the corridor is 7 blocks long and 2 high and they have to move slowly it would be difficult to keep so many ghosts in sync to look like one wall. So I want to create one model based on pasting 7x2 blocks together. The trouble is I haven't used Blender or 3ds max before and I don't fully understand sol666's tutorial on creating oversized models. Can anyone help?